Eckwarderhörne dike battery

Location of the dike battery on the headland in Eckwarderhörne

The dike battery Eckwarderhörne was a coastal battery in Eckwarderhörne to protect the war port Wilhelmshaven in the Prussian exclave Eckwarden .

history

The dike battery in Eckwarderhörne was located in a strategically important location on the southwestern tip of the Jade Bay ; there was already a French battery here . Due to its location, the battery was able to secure the entrance to the Jade Bay and ship traffic off Wilhelmshaven. With the Jade Treaty in 1853, a 2.2 hectare piece of land was given from Oldenburg to Prussia and the following year it was taken over by Prussia. The battery itself was built in the dike. It was never equipped with guns. During the Second World War, the system was expanded into the Eckwarderhörne heavy flak battery .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Gosch: fortress construction on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The history of the German coastal fortifications until 1918 . 1st edition. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0743-9 , pp. 51-64 .
2. ^ Albrecht Eckhardt: Oldenburgisches Ortlexikon AK . S. 259 .
3. ↑ Strategically important place. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
4. ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, ISBN 3-9806885-0-X , p. 219-223 .
5. ^ Frank Gosch: fortress construction on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The history of the German coastal fortifications until 1918 . 1st edition. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0743-9 , pp. 51-64 .
6. ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, ISBN 3-9806885-0-X , p. 219-223 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '15.2 "  N , 8 ° 13' 56.5"  E